Sunday, 27 January 2013

My wargaming colleague 'A' has been relocating his wargaming room and has been clearing out a lot of old , unused and generally not wanted figures , knowing my need for this raw metal for recasting into 40mm figures (see my other blog) he kindly donated it to me.

In repayment for this I agreed to build some more of the prepainted 4Ground buildings for him.

This time it was 3 log cabins and a terrace of houses. The log cabins were easy enough to assemble but they can be made into different layouts by adding extensions and altering the position of the doors and windows. The terraced houses are impressive but slightly more fiddly with all those windows . The roofs are removable as is the first floor of the terrace.

Saturday, 5 January 2013

I've got the first unit of my Old School Franco-Prussian War painted. It's the French Regiment No. 48

18 advancing figures , a Standard Bearer,Drummer and 2 Officers

I decided not to bother basing them as they have decent sized bases (unusual for figures nowadays !) and seem stable enough.

Unfortunately I ordered a standard bearer for the other French unit -the Chasseurs, only to find out that at this period in history they did not carry them ! - so another order has had to go in so I can replace the standard bearer with another trumpeter . I have also ordered another French line unit , a Prussian Jaeger unit and a gun and crew for each side.

Painted the blue and red colours a darker shade first then highlighted with a lighter colour.

The Regimental Standard is a downloaded one off Warflags website.

Sorry for the rather blurry photo of the basic French infantryman , he comes in 3 different poses -marching ,advancing and high porte so each unit will be different. Going to do a Prussian line regiment next.